Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
It's possible to go to the market, buy good ingredients, and make yourself a healthy meal for less than it costs to buy a value meal at McDonald's.
Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
When I buy Windows 98, I'm not only buying something useful, I'm giving money to Bill Gates, which is a really good thing.
I don't want people buying my records for this summer's hit. I want people buying them because they're interested in what Ministry will have to say in the future.
Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy.
When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.
Lilja: Do you want to buy anything? Woman at yard sale: There's nothing to buy here!
We still live in a world where if you have nuclear weapons, you are buying power; you are buying insurance against attack.
You can't buy back your respect; you can't buy back your career. You only get one, so I don't want to mess that up.
I was not a classic mother. But my kids were never palmed off to boarding school. So, I didn't bake cookies. You can buy cookies, but you can't buy love.
I don't want to tell you what to buy. I just want to help you think about why you're buying it.
If thine enemy wrong thee, buy each of his children a drum.
Though the emperor be rich, he cannot buy one extra year.
He who wants a new world must first buy the old.
Tell me what you want to buy and I will tell you what you are.
Once a man has been bitten by a lion, he buys a dog.
The Italian invents it; the Frenchman makes it; the Germans sell it; the Pole buys it and the Tartar plunders it.
A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, 'At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.'
As Sancho said, money does not buy happiness but it does buy nearly everything else.
Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.
